An ape is any member of the Hominoidea superfamily of primates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Some use it to describe all members of the Hominoidea superfamily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Post-conflict social events in wild mountain gorillas (Mammalia, Hominoidea) .1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albertine Rift montane forests] Reference

We have fairly good evidence that spellcheck was designed by a peculiar species of verbalizing Hominoidea.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Scientist] Reference

In older usage, all simians were called “apes”, and the Hominoidea were distinguished as “great apes”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is One "King Kong" Movie worth 1000 Darwin Exhibits? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Edit hominin Hominini hominine Homininae hominid Hominidae hominoid Hominoidea anyone else thinking of Ed Norton?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

If it's written more generally, well, humans are of the order Primates (primates), the superfamily Hominoidea (apes), and the family Hominidae (great apes).    From Wordnik.com.  ["One can cook really delicious things with [breast milk]. However, it always needs to be mixed with a bit of whipped cream..."] Reference

This seems to be the rationale for using the term “ape-like” rather than the more rationalized “ape” term for Hominoidea, and especially for Hominidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trollart on Tiktaalik - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

A hominin is a member of the tribe Hominini, a hominine is a member of the subfamily Homininae, a hominid is a member of the family Hominidae, and a hominoid is a member of the superfamily Hominoidea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Arguably, we might just call certain specialized primates of the Hominoidea superfamily “apes”, while the more generalized species leading to ourselves and our closer relatives are to be called “ape-like” in order to distinguish them from the specialization that has set off apes from ourselves in many minds heretofore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trollart on Tiktaalik - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

While I realize that Hominoidea species not too closely related to the lineage leading to man are frequently called “apes”, whether extant or fossil, there seems to be a countervailing tendency to use the term primariliy for modern apes and for a bewildering array of more “ape-like” fossil creatures than those leading to, roughly, ourselves and our closer fossil relatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trollart on Tiktaalik - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Oka SW, Kraus BS (1969) The circumnatal status of molar crown maturation among the Hominoidea.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Indeed, our superfamily, Hominoidea, split from the group labeled "old world monkeys" millions of years ago-but perhaps not as many million as we thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

DNA analysis has pegged this split some 35 million to 30 million years ago, but a new fossil specimen challenges that molecular data with rock-hard evidence. partial skull of an ancient primate, dubbed Saadanius hijazensis, seems to have trappings of both the Hominoidea and Cercopithecoidea lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

Mosaic Evolution in the Origin of the Hominoidea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

Superfamily: Hominoidea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardi is a million years older than Lucy - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Superfamilia: Hominoidea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet Selam - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Hominoidea apes, essentially, including us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is One "King Kong" Movie worth 1000 Darwin Exhibits? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference